Best Practices for Line Icons in Website Design

Website Design, Website ExamplesNataly Birch • August 28, 2015

Line Icons in Website Design - Best Practice

With highly popular flat and solid icons, line style glyphs rule the roost this year. They have found their place not only in traditional control centers, navigation bars, social media widgets or pagination but also in an inner structure such …

What is Invisible Design?

DesignCarrie Cousins • August 26, 2015

Design is not always an in-your-face art. It is subtle, usable and often undefinable. Quite simply, good design is often invisible. And just to be clear – invisible design is not about adding layers or transparencies or hidden meanings to …

How to Create CSS3 Animated Checkboxes

CodingSam Norton • August 24, 2015

HTML forms have a lot of elements which function differently. Some of them provide options while others need input from the user. HTML checkboxes are a good example of this. Checkboxes give the user an option to select one or …

How to Animate a Flat Design Bicycle in After Effects (Part 2)

Adobe ToolsMarta Berzina • August 17, 2015

In this tutorial we will learn how to animate the flat design bicycle from the previous tutorial. Step 1: Set Up the File 1.1 Open After Effects and click on composition – new composition. Make your composition 1920×1080 px. And …

Top 10 Mistakes that Make your Website Look Unprofessional

Website DesignHeidi Pungartnik • August 10, 2015

Building your own website can seem like a good idea for money-strapped entrepreneurs. You can just get a designer on board later on, when your startup gains some ground, then you’ll worry about insignificant things like that. Right? Actually, design …

GUIs, Wireframes and Sketch Templates for Apple Watch Apps

FreebiesNataly Birch • August 07, 2015

Apple Watch is one of the hottest products of the year. Designers are going wild with their concepts for watch apps and mockups. Behance and Dribbble are filled with incredible, sophisticated and pioneering UI designs for the Apple Watch. If …

25 Delightful Flat Design 2.0 Websites for Inspiration

Website ExamplesJerry Cao • August 04, 2015

Bigger. Better. More intricate details. These days, flat design has progressed into something a little less… flat. In an on-point description of the newest iteration, Ryan Allen calls it “Flat Design 2.0.” His article for Dapper Gentlemen lays out what …

List of Free Food Icons for Restaurant-Themed UIs

FreebiesNataly Birch • August 03, 2015

List of Free Food Icons for Finishing Off Restaurant-themed UIs

Rigorous attention to detail is what converts a simple design into a real masterpiece. Although it seems that regular users will not notice the difference, however, as practice shows they not just feel but also see it. It is like …

Trend Breakdown: New Ways to Use the Hamburger Icon

Website Design, Website ExamplesNataly Birch • July 23, 2015

Meant to be really simple, functional, intuitive and memorable like any “road sign,” the hamburger menu icon stole the show last year and became an integral element of any modern website and mobile app design, though it has been with …

Base CSS and Navigation Systems in Bootstrap

Bootstrap, CodingSam Norton • July 22, 2015

In this tutorial, we’re going to study the different base elements and navigation system. Using the Base CSS Styling HTML elements — which includes headings, paragraphs, forms and tables — is easy but can take some time in the process of …